Reconstruction:Middle Persian/sambōsag

This Middle Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Middle Persian

Noun

*sambōsag

a triangular-shaped food

Descendants

Classical Persian: سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa)
- Tajik: самбӯса (sambüsa)
- → Arabic: سَنْبُوسَة (sanbūsa)
- → Gujarati: સમોસું (samosũ)
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: समोसा (samosā)
  - → English: samosa
    → Japanese: サモサ (samosa)
    → Korean: 사모사 (samosa)
  - → Malayalam: സമോസ (samōsa)
  - → Mauritian Creole: samousa
  - → Réunion Creole French: samousa
    → French: samoussa
  - → Tamil: சமோசா (camōcā)
  - → Telugu: సమోస (samōsa)
  Urdu: سموسہ (samosā)
- → Kazakh: самса (samsa)
- → Ngazidja Comorian: samɓusa
- → Russian: самса́ (samsá) (via Central Asian Turkic)
- → Somali: sambuus
- → Swahili: sambusa
  - → Malagasy: sambosa
- → Uyghur: سامسا (samsa)
- → Uzbek: somsa
→ Arabic: سَنْبُوسَج (sanbūsaj), سَنْبُوسَق (sanbūsaq), سَمْبُوسَك (sambūsak)

References

Petits Propos Culinaires‎^[1], 2005, page 78: “Presumably Middle Persian *sambōsag, from se ‘three’ (referring to the triangular shape) and *ambōs ‘bread with seeds in it’.”